I once shorted 380V with my little finger (testing industrial electric motors for overheating). It was like someone hitting the finger with a sledgehammer.
The most I ever got shocked with was 560Vdc @ 10mA I know it was 10mA because it popped the safety breaker on the lab power supply. I was testing a clamp circuit for a high power solid state RF matching network. I had been so careful the whole time using only one hand, but I got complacent for one second and BOOM, hand-torso-hand circuit.
It felt like I got kicked in the chest. Was sore for a few days after.
So lucky I was using the lab supply with a good breaker.
Oh I did not mention it, but the hands kept hurting one or two weeks after that. Really not funny. But 380v is another level of danger, energy goes ^2 with voltage!
Well it was really just the pinkie (and the arm a little bit), but it felt more like a kinetic hit then a electric-shock, pretty terrifying, the pain lasted for like a week (damaged bone marrow?)
